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1. Lead isotope ratios as a means of identifying anthropogenic inputs to soils.
2. Multi-element analysis to identify functional areas, Tayside, Scotland.
3. Coastal Geomorphological Change and Settlement Adaptation in Tanzania from the Sixth to Fifteenth Centuries AD.
4. Detecting buried Archaeology using Airborne Remote Sensing.
5. Soil erosion, agricultural terracing and site formation processes at Markiani, Amorgos, Greece.
6. Post-burial clay and iron movement in archaeological soils and sediments.
7. Multi-element soil analysis: an assessment of its potential as an aid to archaeological interpretation.
8. How has the study of soils and sediments developed within archaeology?
9. A Neolithic buried soil in the loess of Pegwell Bay, Kent.
10. Prehistoric and Roman gullying in the European loess belt.
11. Mid-Holocene Charcoal Fall in Southern Scotland.
12. Holocene Coastal Change in Northumberland.
13. Holocene dune building on San Miguel Island, California.
14. Pre-industrial human and environment interactions in northern Peru during the late Holocene.
15. Lithics scatter site at Boncyn Ddol, Gwynedd, Wales – a spatial topsoil survey of phosphate and magnetic susceptibility.
16. Bronze Age cairn at Carneddau, Powys, Wales – investigation of old ground surface and cremation fills through complementary phosphate and magnetic susceptibility analyses.
17. Guildhall (Roman amphitheatre) excavation, London – complementary use of multi-element analysis, soil micromorphology and palynology.
18. Archaeological prospection at Oakham, Leicestershire – use of fractional conversion in the interpretation of field magnetic susceptibility survey data.
19. Early Christian burial site at Plas Gogerddan, Ceredigion, Wales – use of phosphate in the investigation of possible graves.
20. Evidence for Medieval soil erosion in the South Hams region of Devon, UK.
21. Caves and shepherds in Italy.
22. Soil and sediment analysis from Viking to Medieval deposits in Norse Orkney.
23. Fuel Resource Utilisation between c. AD871 to 1000 at Mývatnssveit in Northern Iceland.
24. Extraction methodologies for multi-element analysis of archaeological soils.
25. The identification of manure and faecal materials in archaeological soils from Crete, Turkey, Athens and Orkney.
26. Soils and palaeo-climate based evidence for irrigation requirements in Norse Greenland.
27. The palaeohydrology of Iron Age sites in the Mun River Valley, NE Thailand.
28. Socio-environmental Holocene Landscapes of Numundo, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
29. Social change in late Holocene mainland SE Asia.
30. The disposal of waste in deepened soils in Scotland, the Netherlands and Denmark.
31. Micromorphological and Microchemical Analysis of St. Kilda Soils.
32. Micromorphology, image and microprobe analysis to identify black carbonaceous material in anthrosols.
33. Calcareous features from the excavations at Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.
34. A Buried Soil from Castle Rising, Norfolk.
35. Research into Natural and Anthropogenic Deposits from the Excavations at Flixborough, Humberside.
36. Prehistoric Clay Sources: A Forensic Exercise in Geoarchaeology.
37. Remote Sensing for Dryland Geoarchaeological Investigations in Southern Libya.
38. Early brass in the ancient Near East.
39. Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire.
40. Analysis of Metavolcanic Rocks from the Vicinity of Fort Bragg, North Carolina: Artifact Source Quarry Discrimination.
41. Paleolithic Burnt Bone Horizons from the Swabian Jura.
42. Geoarchaeology of Phoenicia’s buried harbours.
43. Neo-environmental determinism and agrarian collapse in Andean prehistory.
44. Allochthonous and autochthonous mire deposits, slope instability and palaeoenvironmental investigations in the Borve Valley, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
45. An evaluation of the site specificity of soil elemental signatures for identifying and interpreting former functional areas.